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Jackson Vocab
definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Election of 1824 | Election between Jackson, Adams, Crawford, and Clay. The House of Representatives gets the final say in who wins the election. |
| Election of 1828 | Election between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Jackson ends up becoming the 7th president |
| Electoral Vote | # of votes that has to be majority or one more than half |
| Corrupt Bargain | Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams made an agreement that made Adams the 6th president. After this, Adams made Clay Secretary of State |
| John Quincy Adams | Won the Election of 1824 and was the 6th president of the United States |
| Henry Clay | Secretary of State for John Quincy Adams and was the leader of the Whig Party |
| Andrew Jackson | Won the Election of 1828 and was the 7th president of the United States. Only served 2 terms |
| Gibbons v. Ogden | Court case where John Marshall ruled the federal gov't that had power to regulate interstate commerce |
| McCulloch v. Maryland | Court case where John Marshall ruled a national bank that was constitutional and a state couldn't tax banks |
| Supremacy Clause | Constitution states that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land and made the federal gov't stronger than the states |
| Necessary and Proper | Congress can do anything it needs to carry out its powers |
| Worcester v. Georgia | Court case where the Cherokee could stay on their land |
| Interstate Commerce | Trading between states |
| Implied Powers | Powers that aren't specifically given to Congress |
| Federalism | Powers shared between state gov'ts and national gov'ts |
| Reinforce | To support with additional material |
| Electoral College | A group that chooses who is the next president of the United States |
| Supreme Court | The highest court in the US |
| House of Representatives | Part of Congress that can impeach the president. If no one running for president gets majority vote, the House gets to decide who wins |
| John C. Calhoun | Argued for states rights from South Carolina |
| Ensure | To clarify that something will happen |
| Popular Vote | # of people who vote for a presidential candidate |
| Tariff | Taxes on imported goods |
| Nullification Crisis | When South Carolina refused to follow the Tariff of 1828 |
| States Rights | States have certain rights not listed in the Constitution |
| Tariff of Abominations | Highest tariff in United State history |
| Indian Territory | In modern-day Oklahoma |
| Cherokee | Native tribes that lived in GA, TN, and SC |
| Seminole | Native tribe from Florida |
| John Marshall | Presided over the Gibbons v. Ogden and McCulloch V. Maryland court case |
| James McCulloch | Clerk for the Bank of the United States in Maryland |
| Sequoya | Native American that mad the writing system for the Cherokee |
| Trial of Tears | Removal of Chickasaw, Cherokee, and Chocktaw to moder-day Oklahoma |
| Jacksonian Democrats | Political Party to help support Andrew Jackson's policy's |
| Jacksonian Democracy | Idea that the Common man should get involved with the gov't through voting or holding office |
| Whigs | Political Party that opposed the policies of Andrew Jackson |
| Nicholas Biddle | President of the second Bank of the United States |
| Martin Van Buren | Andrew Jackson's 2nd vice president and was elected 10th president of the United States |
| 2nd Bank of the United States | Destroyed by Jackson when its funds were removed |
| Veto | President can deny or cancel a bill that was passed by Congress |
| Dismantle | To take to pieces |
| Suffrage | To have the right to vote |
| Caucus System | More common man select candidates for president |
| Spoils System | Rewarding political supporters with government jobs |
| Panic of 1837 | Economic depression when Martin Van Buren was president |
| William Henry Harrison | 9th president of the United States |
| Repeal | Remove a law that has already been passed |
| Indian Removal Act | Law that required the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole, and Choctaw to move into modern-day Oklahoma |
| Nullify | Declare a law passed by Congress to be canceled out |
| Nullification | Process of a state declaring a law to be void |
| Secede | Leave a country |
| Adams-Onis Treaty | Agreement between the US and Spain that gave Florida to the US |
| Appeal | To make a serious request, most likely to the public |
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